Karasik Quotes & Sayings

What I expect is a little more respect from a fellow manager. — Sam Allardyce

When God is here spoken of as hardening some of the children of men, it is not to be understood that God by any positive efficiency hardens any man's heart. There is no positive act in God, as though he put forth any power to harden the heart. To suppose any such thing would be to make God the immediate author of sin. God is said to harden men in two ways: by withholding the powerful influences of his Spirit, without which their hearts will remain hardened, and grow harder and harder; in this sense he hardens them, as he leaves them to hardness. And again, by ordering those things in his providence which, through the abuse of their corruption, become the occasion of their hardening. Thus God sends his word and ordinances to men which, by their abuse, prove an occasion of their hardening. — Jonathan Edwards

Good innovators typically think very big and they think very small. New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look. And they are sometimes found when you are doing your most abstract and philosophical thinking, considering why the world is the way that it is and whether there might be an alternative to the dominant paradigm. Rarely can they be found in the temperate latitudes between they two spaces, where we spend 99 percent of our lives. — Nate Silver

It's a natural law: You receive as much as you give. — Paul Karasik

Motivation is not a matter of will-power, it is a matter of want-power. — Paul Karasik

...Who knew he'd rather be a waiter than your guardian. I guess being a guardian isn't paying too well these days. Or maybe he's finally come to terms with the fact that he sucks at it.... ~Mazriel from Sanctuary — Beth Gualda

There in the sweet sacking smell of the mail bags he understood that he was dying, and it pleased him that he was going in the company of so many soft words home. — Chris Cleave

Clothes do not make the man, but you need the proper costume to play the part. — Patrick Rothfuss

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention]. — Peter MacKay

Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

His eyes were the brightest, most unnatural blue I had ever seen, a toxic cerulean. — Courtney Allison Moulton

I always wished I could move around and switch schools. It was hard to have these radical transformations. You'd think, 'I will be a totally different person tomorrow,' but it never worked. — Sarah Dessen

The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place? — Albert Einstein